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Candace L. Sidner

Candace L. Sidner has 2 papers in our library, in 1981–1986, most of them on Discourse analysis; often with Barbara J. Grosz.

2 papers in our library · 1981–1986

OpenAlex · h-index 38 · 178 works · 9,964 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 380 times in our library · 3 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #1049

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 Affiliations

🎓Worcester Polytechnic InstituteWorcester · United States2010–2019 · 33 paperscurrent🏢Mitsubishi Electric Research LaboratoriesCambridge · United States2001–2006 · 28 papers🏢BAE SystemsArlington · United States2007–2009 · 6 papers🏢Mitsubishi ElectricCypress · United States2003–2006 · 6 papers🎓Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge · United States1978–2008 · 4 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 5The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksArtificial Intelligence · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksPhilosophy · 1 work

🧭 Topics 1Research subjects and languages the work is about.Discourse analysis · 1 work

 Works by year

1980s

19861 paper19811 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Attention, Intentions, and the Structure of Discourse (1986 · 2,929 citations)
    Grosz and Sidner propose a computational theory of how discourse is organized. It addresses two questions: what makes a stretch of utterances one discourse, and what makes it coherent. Their answer splits discourse structure into three interacting parts:
  2. Focusing for Interpretation of Pronouns (1981 · 127 citations)
    Sidner addresses how a listener or a program works out what a pronoun stands for. She argues that the classic notion of an "antecedent" is flawed. Words do not point to other words, and a pronoun may denote something no earlier phrase literally names. Her example is "they" denoting Harley 1200 bikes as a class after…

All works

5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. Attention, Intentions, and the Structure of DiscourseComputational LinguisticsBarbara J. Grosz, Candace L. Sidner1986 · 2,929 citations
  2. Contextual recognition of head gestures ↗International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces · no summary yetLouis‐Philippe Morency et al.2005 · 132 citations
  3. Focusing for Interpretation of PronounsComputational LinguisticsCandace L. Sidner1981 · 127 citations
  4. Nodding in conversations with a robot ↗CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA) · no summary yetChristopher William Lee et al.2004 · 18 citations
  5. Towards Context-Based Visual Feedback Recognition for Embodied Agents ↗no summary yetLouis‐Philippe Morency, Candace L. Sidner, Trevor Jackson Darrell2005 · 5 citations

 Co-authors here

1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 380 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 77 citing papers with a page here →.

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